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

What seems new is only new to us.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

One faces the future with one's past.

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

Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity.

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.