You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.

When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

If I had a child who wanted to be a teacher, I would bid him Godspeed as if he were going to war. For indeed the war against prejudice, greed, and ignorance is eternal, and those who dedicate themselves to it give their lives no less because they may live to see some fraction of the battle won.

This storm you talk of . . .t will be such a one, my son, as the world has not seen before. There will be no safety by arms, no help from authority, no answer in science. It will rage till every flower of culture is trampled, and all human things are leveled in a vast chaos.