There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.

Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.

Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.