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

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.

What a testing of character adversity is.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

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

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.

The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and his description of its wonders is among the noblest poetry of the race, but today the new science has opened to our eyes vistas of mystery that transcend in their inexplicable marvel anything the ancients ever dreamed.