“Understanding is a two-way street.”
“What one has to do usually can be done.”
“Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.”
“You always admire what you really don't understand.”
“You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.”
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
“Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.”
“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
“I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.”
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
“It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.”
“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.”
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
“I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.”
“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”
“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.”
“If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.”
“The purpose of life...is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself,”
“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.”
“Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.”
“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”