When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.

It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.

I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.