I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think as they do. Nor have they ever thought of what they might have been if they had grown up in an entirely different culture. They have the disposition of all politicians world over to deal only with made opinion. They have never inquired how it is that opinion is made.

It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.

There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.

We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.