Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.