No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.--Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.

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

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us