The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.

God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him. . . . If we look far enough back in the depths of time, the disordered anthill of living beings suddenly, for an informed observer, arranges itself in long files that make their way by various paths towards greater consciousness.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.

Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are not contemporaries-that is to say are taken from two quite different times.