Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.

Neither love without knowledge nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.

When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last.

The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

Where envy is unavoidable it must be used as a stimulus to one’s own efforts, not to the thwarting of the efforts of rivals.

That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other.

You hold one feather tightly in your hand, close your eyes and concentrate. The location of the other feather will appear in your mind and the magic will take you there.

We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.

When you reach out to God humbly, you'll find that He's already reaching out to you.

Where there is personality, there is discord.

Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

Damn it, nobody knows what is beautiful and what is not. They do not understand new things.

I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child.

Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one.

What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.