A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

... 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

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.