"148. One who does not realize his own value is condemned to utter failure. (Every kind of complex, superiority or inferiority is harmful to man)."

"Puritanism...helps us enjoy our misery while we are inflicting it on others."

"If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family."

"The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air."

"I don't want to be charged with child abuse."

"Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves."

"No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt."

"Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?"

"A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength."

"We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough."

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

"All persons living and dead are purely coincidental."