It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.

What seems new is only new to us.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.