Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.

You don’t just luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

It is an ecological, theological, and biological reality: The more we are in tune with eternal nature, the more we will be able to hear the still small voice within and have explosions of inspirational insight.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

Appearance rules the world.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.