Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do with morals as understood by us today.

You could bounce rocks off her pride.

People can die of mere imagination.

I don't even possess a car. I ride in auto-rickshaws because I like to be a part of the masses. I don't want to single myself out as someone up and above.

Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring.

You have to accept yourself, and you have to realize that you're beautiful.

Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.

The more positive you are when you think and work toward your goals, the faster you achieve them.

Never had it occurred to me that the things that had happened to me...might be a kind of trauma.

Faith doesn't always instantly deliver you, but it always carries you through.

I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker.