“It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.”

“It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.”

“I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.”

“Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.”

“I do not know much about this man [Jesus], but I do know that his whole life conveys one message: 'anyone at any moment can start a new future.”

“Words can calm people, can make them them fall in love, can whip them up into a frenzy, can turn them into killers.”

“Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves and where they dream.”