When we count on chance in lieu of law and labor, we weaken our healthy attitudes toward work, our fellow men and our God.

True liberty consists not merely in being free from something, but also in being free for something.

The hope of free people in a frightened world is the values which people put ahead of inventions when their backs are to the wall. These values are beauty, truth, goodness and having a faith, all of which are bombproof.

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness.

The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down, half-finished loves.