As long as we can keep our international relations in the realm of conference rather than open conflict, we are giving truth more time to vindicate itself. And what we ourselves need is more faith in the power of truth.

Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.

We cannot hoard life as we can money. When a person tries to be a miser of his health, he usually makes himself miserable. Mental talents, if buried and not used, tend to deteriorate. Whoever would save his memory by not using it will lose it.

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.

The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.

All our science and philosophy form only an island of knowledge surrounded by an ocean of mystery. The larger the island grows, the longer the shoreline where the known meets the unknown.

What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you.