The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

Children are the keys of paradise.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.