The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.