The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth.

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself

Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fairTo be death’s conquest and make worms thine heir.

Time doesn't need to be found, it is in plain sight ticking away loudly all the time. How we use it is the only question.

...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.

Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.

Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair.

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

You usually never know what you're going to do when you're making a movie.