Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.