The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

...the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.

Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience.

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.

Don't turn around. Don't look back. Keep moving forward. Keep pushing. The pot of gold is at the end of the rainbow, not the beginning.