But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral units -- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coattails.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

...to find where you are going, you must know where you are.

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.