The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. 'I am no such thing,' it would say; 'I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.