The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.

He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.

We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new expression in terms of the framework which our new knowledge gives us. Science forces religion to deal with new ideas in the theoretical realm and new forces in the practical realm.