The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of Nature is planning them too.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it; the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.