When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else… you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person’s stature is as large as one’s own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do
No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.
All of life is a constant education.
Understanding is a two-way street.
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
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