When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Great leaders are most often God’s spokesmen.

Kindness is gracious demonstrate sensitivity and human warmth.

The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.

If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

The world knows little of the works wrought by prayer.

Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.

Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.

You know what the funniest thing about Europe is? It's the little differences.

As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.