I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather....In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.

Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.

The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.