Nothing is menial where there is love..

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it..

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world..

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth..

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind..

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought..

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail..

I am mentally bifocal..

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings..

He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loi….

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them..

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness..

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings..

The highest civilizations -- the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms -- are those which have come the closest to achievi….

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America..

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and ….

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder..

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography..

The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slippin….

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old..

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to thi….