“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”

Finding hope in childhood and in humanity’s continuing possibility of renewal · Prose aphorism, Stray Birds

• Childhood
• Faith
• Hope

“Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its grasp with a hold that kills it.”

Showing how rigid certainty can destroy the truth it claims to protect · Prose aphorism, Stray Birds

• Faith
• Truth

“The butterfly counts not in months but moments, and has time enough.”

Celebrating the intensity of the present moment rather than the length of life · Prose aphorism, Stray Birds

• Joy
• Nature
• Time

“Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds.”

Warning against confusing political loyalty with deeper spiritual and moral values · Essay, Nationalism

• Truth
• War

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”

Defining education as a way of bringing the individual into harmony with the wider world · Essay, My School, in Personality

• Nature
• Truth