“Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.”
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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.
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.