The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson or Joseph Conrad. It’s a glimpse of eternity. It invites rumination, the relentless whisper of the tide against the shore.

We are here to make another world.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

‘Star Wars’ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

Of all human activities, man’s listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation – or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays – is like a blind man’s dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

People who don’t like inspirational quotes are the people who read them, but don’t actually comprehend them or take them to heart.