The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

The best security for old age: respect your children.

Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation.

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

If you keep fighting with yourself, you will always win.

Remember to live and learn to give.

You are the light. Rise and shine.

Be curious! Curiosity is the mother of all knowledge.

We can't allow racism and xenophobia to gain traction.

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.

I'm nice, and I show up on time.

Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise.

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.