Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. - Eleanor Roosevelt

When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.

Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer — that is the ultimate success.

It has always seemed to me a great pity that man's noblest instincts, his heroic self-sacrifice, his capacity to unite with his neighbor in a common cause, emerge only in times of disaster, such as war and fire and flood.