Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

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.

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

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.