Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

When you can see your life in retrospect, the romanticism of how good things once were gives way to the reality that positives and negatives comprise every day and every decade. (235)

Two wrongs' create an additional problem.'A wrong' plus 'A right' creates a remorse.'Two rights' create a solution.

You have half our gifts. I the other. Together we make a whole. Together we are much more powerful.

To excel the past we must not allow ourselves to lose contact with it on the contrary we must feel it under our feet because we raised ourselves upon it.

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.

Muti is going to do the Alpine Symphony this year. He will do it well because it is not very well known.

Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.