Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

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 believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.