Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.