Opportunities multiply as they are seized. Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there. Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. There is no 'try'.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source.