A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that t… - Eleanor Roosevelt

In this world, no one is all knowing, and therefore, all of us need both love and charity.

WE ALL create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a very real sense, by the time we are adult, we are the sum total of the choices we have made. This is not pleasant hearing for the person who wishes to place the responsibility for what he has become on someone else or on that blanket alibi, circumstances beyond his control. To such a person the circumstances always seem to be beyond his control. But I believe most firmly that in the long run every single one of us must be responsible for himself and for his actions.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.