“Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.”

“Work usually follows will.”

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”

“We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things history has to offer. The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, and bravery to ...”

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”

“What a curious power words have.”

“The challenge lies in knowing how to bring this sort of day to a close. His mind has been wound to a pitch of concentration by the interactions of the office. Now there are only silence and the fla...”

“Disillusioned, people simply carried out their work as intended, drinking away sobriety at the end of each hard shift and repeating the process until death.”

“My mind feels like a beehive without the buzz.”

“Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.”

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

“Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.”