You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.

If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.