It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the ….

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women..

We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart..

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind..

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low..

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace..

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence..

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them..

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light..

The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy….

Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence o….

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty t….

Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward un….

When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been open….

The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good..

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars..

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of ….

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good..

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering..

To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable..

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant..