You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hard-working. Never be faint-hearted. Be resolute, but never bitter.

hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

The well-being and the hopes of the peoples of the world can never be served until peace - as well as freedom, honor and self-respect - is secure.

We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.

Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.

The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.

There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble.

The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it.

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat--''Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to be working.

This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.

One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.

Those of us who stayed were younger, more tractable. Less sure of ourselves socially and intellectually, we gave ourselves to the sport with little idea of what we could give or receive.

Bezos is super smart; don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.

The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.