The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for affection and security. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people