The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.

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 highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.