Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves.

We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.

Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.