All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.

A person is either himself or not himself; is either rooted in his existence or is a fabrication; has either found his humanhood or is still playing with masks and roles and status symbols. And nobody is more aware of this difference (although unconsciously) than a child. Only an authentic person can evoke a good response in the core of the other person; only person is resonant to person.

The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.

The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.

Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.