I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.

In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.

No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.