"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."

"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say 'My tooth aches…"

"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."