I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.

Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

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

There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.

Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.