“Strength does not come from physical capacity.  It comes from the indomitable will.”

“It is because we have at the present moment everybody claiming the right of conscience without going through any discipline whatsoever that there is so much untruth being delivered to a bewildered world.”

” I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson:  to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.”

Joy lies in fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.”

“To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”

“Life is greater than art.  I would go even further and declare that the man whose life comes nearest to perfection is the greatest artist; for what is art without the sure foundation and framework of a noble life?”