Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Give and take.Oil and water. Yes, it is that simple!

Nobody as the right to give up on a whole generation before it's even had a right to prove itself.

Be healthy, hearty and happy.

I've lost so many battles than I can even remember. But I didn't know I was stronger than I thought.

Just kissing? How quickly you dismiss our love.

In reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.

One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me.

That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

I would gladly have climbed out of my skin and into his that night, because I believed that was what love meant.

We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.