"Great leaders cultivate leaders, not merely followers. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 103 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 65."

"To master the mind is to understand that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"Wisdom principle 93 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 59."

"The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life."

"Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves."

"For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language."

"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."