The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.