It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, seated on a throne. Divinity is love. . . . Wherever goodness, beauty, truth, love, are-there is the divine.

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

Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.

It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.