To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity.

No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.