With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.

We should respect all people.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.

When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.

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.

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

Life is a daring adventure or nothing.