"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."

"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work."

"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

"To dream is to realize that every ending is merely a new beginning in disguise."

"A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement."

"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."

"No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons."