One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It is awful to think of the essential human energy moving so tiny a thing; it is like imagining that human nature could live in the wing of a butterfly or the leaf of a tree. When we look upon lives so human and yet so small... We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel...

I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.