To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.