Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, and imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.

Education is the cornerstone of liberty.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes, and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

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

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren’t paying attention to you

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the center of the universe.

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them

If the only prayer you say throughout your life is “Thank You,” then that will be enough.

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

One person of integrity can make a difference.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

I never waste time looking back.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run it is easier.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences

Everyone has an obligation to the state, it means an obligation to see that children are educated.

Life has got to be lived – that’s all there is to it.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

I feel that there is nothing more important than for every girl… to obtain as high an education as she can.

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

I once 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.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.

Understanding is a two-way street.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words. It is expressed in the choices one makes.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

True progress happens slowly. We must be patient.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.”

The giving of love is an education in itself.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

No one can humiliate you without your consent.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.