The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

Hope clouds observation.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.