Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

Love is a better teacher than duty. 

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. 

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.