Prayrer changes things by changing people.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Only the educated are free.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.