Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.