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.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.