Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

The property of power is to protect.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.