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.

Mystery is truth's dancing partner.

Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.

The world is full of contradiction.