People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.

Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...

The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.