“So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”

“To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.”

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

“There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.”

“Don't consider painful what's good for you.”

“A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful whole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.”

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”

“[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.”