It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject.

I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.

In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative.

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.