Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.
Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.
But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at all. In the spirit of this passage, the editor has taken the liberty of editing Mr. Cousins' language to make it more gender inclusive.