People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.

Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention.

Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.