How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God.

There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.

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.