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.

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.

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

The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.

In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.

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