We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

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

A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.