No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

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.

But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.

My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.