Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.

After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.