The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

Look the world straight in the eye.

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.

My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.