You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.