Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

Depression is rage spread thin.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.