It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.

Despite the success-cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

We must learn what we fear, that is the case at the core of the restoration of health.