We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.

The whole point of view of the anarchist is that everything must start from the bottom up, from man. It seems to me so human a philosophy.

The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life for the sick, the maimed, the leper. But there was another question in my mind. Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place? Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

It is people who are important, not the masses.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.