A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

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.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us

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.

The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.