A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

An absolute law without hope of appeal that's despotism!

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.

The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

There has never been a miracle drug that could equal the Word of God. God's medicine is the answer to every need.

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.

Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.

The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.

One cannot revoke a true happiness.