The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.

I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical.

The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.

I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.

A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.