There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.

Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.