We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists of bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.