“The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes”

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays”

“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.”

“A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world”

“And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray”

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”