"Learning and living. But they really are the same thing, aren't they? There is no experience from which you can't learn something. When you stop learning you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense. And the purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience ...I don't really like the concept of heroes because they usually disappoint. But asked whom I most admire, my answer always includes Eleanor Roosevelt. I've read many of her books; a very appropriate quote for today is from the book YOU LEARN BY LIVING.
I honor the human race. When it faces life head-on, it can almost remake itself.
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words, it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to thing through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. But this, at least, I believe with all my heart: In the long fun, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
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