The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.

Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

Good habits which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

Watch the littlest kids carefully

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.

An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I will wait. I will see. Which it is. Perhaps it is both.

I like enthusiasts of any kind.

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

It is simply that we treat Japanese history, the history of the Japanese people and its unique culture with greater respect and interest. This generates enormous interest in Russia!