How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.

What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.

Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.

We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!