Self-pity Gets You Nowhere. But Insight To

The Most Extraordinary Thing About The Oyster Is This. Irritations Set Into His Shell. He Does Not Like Them. But When He Cannot Get Ride Of Them, He Uses The Irritation To Do The Loveliest Thing An Oyster Ever Has A Chance To Do. If There Are Irritations In Our Lives Today, There Is Only One Prescription: Make A Pearl. It May Have To Be A Pearl Of Patience, But Anyhow, Make A Pearl. And It Takes Faith And I Love To Do It.

I Renounce War For Its Consequences, For The Lies It Lives On And Propagates, For The Undying Hatred It Arouses, For The Dictatorships It Puts In Place Of Democracy, For The Starvation That Stalks After It. I Renounce War, And Never Again, Directly Or Indirectly, Will I Sanction Or Support Another.

Every Great Scientist Becomes A Great Scientist Because Of The Inner Self-abnegation With Which He Stands Before Truth, Saying: "not My Will, But Thine, Be Done." What, Then, Does A Man Mean By Saying, Science Displaces Religion, When In This Deep Sense Science Itself Springs From Religion?

War's Tragedy Is That It Uses Man's Best To Do Man's Worst.

A Supremely Religious Man Or Woman Is One Who Believes Deeply And Consistently In The Veracity Of His Highest Experiences. He Has His Hours In The Cellar ... But He Believes In The Truth Of The Hours He Spends Upstairs.