It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.