God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.