In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.

The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.

Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude.

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

We do not see the lens through which we look.

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.