There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.

Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline

Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Compromise is a choice. As is the defence of one’s self.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Water is one of the least understood aspects of biology.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.

When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith?

There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.

Some people have jobs where other people don’t clap for them. I don’t understand that.

The eros of advertising is lurid but not specific.