Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that lurks under civilization and emerges in our dreams, crimes and wars? ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.