An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick.

God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.

The final word is love.

Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.

We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

The sense is always that community is natural to people.