We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

Our beliefs are really rules for action.

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in detail towards each successive thesis that offers, and you can no more kill it off by logic than you can kill off obstinacy or practical joking.

We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.