You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

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

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