Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

A leader should accurately discern deceit.

There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the dampness of the summer rains brings out the frogs and snails.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

Let me go, let me go.

The way you make money is to do something you don't like to do. And that's how you know you're a virtuous person.

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.

The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience.

Riches may not bring happiness, but neither does poverty.