To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication sympathy and service.

Always begin anew with the day just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year and that's better.

It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great

There are varieties of life unknown to you.Their whole identity is: you can't find out.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Anyone can be killed.

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

What the Cold War did was provide a fairly clearly defined enemy and it's easy to organize around that.

Insight is 'mental vision,' one of the ways in which the mind escapes the limits of the obvious or the familiar.

How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!