The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.

No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.

Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.