I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other. . .

I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not to fight, they will be sorry, but they will fight. If I tell them to fight, they will be glad, and I who am not a very brave man will have made them a little braver.

Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.