The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

Think with your whole body.

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

My mind's my kingdom.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.