One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." Nobody has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed except those who have been the servants of all. That strange realist from Bethlehem knew that.

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself

Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

Nothing else matters much...not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.