“Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. ”

Life is stranger than biology textbooks.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee!

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Happiness is not pleasure; it is victory.

I have seen the pride of kings and the poverty of the holy; both are but dust.