We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be
The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
. . . the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
It's here, where absolute evil was perpetrated, that the will must resurface for a fraternal world, a world based on respect of man and his dignity.
Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.
People have good and bad days.