Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.