If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

What the common man cannot understand he hates.

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.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.