No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. February 1999 We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
People can alter their lives By altering their attitudes.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. The last is the least dangerous and the most convenient and, even to the wise, the way to it is usually not so far as they like to imagine. Be the change you want to see in the world. For forty-odd years in this noble profession I've harbored a guilt and my conscience is smitten. But most of us, in fact, have a better, stouter-hearted, more vigorous self within us.