Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'