True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.