Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.

I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.