Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. ''