A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

We are not old unless we desire to be.

Saints rarely have friends; they are usually hated and derided, for they love and love is always rejected by hard-hearted men....saints do not advertise themselves; good men do not seek out a name in the world....the saints did what they did almost in stealth, asking nothing except that men love God.