Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.