Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.