A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

For every tree, we plant, we saves a life.

What’s hard about being on the other side of the world is that sometimes the problem feels so big that changing one life doesn’t feel like enough. But it is.

A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers.

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Our whole energy remains blocked either in the past or in the future. When you withdraw all your energy from past and future a tremendous explosion happens.