It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave

The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true; the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow.

There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.

This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Americans need rest, but do not know it.