Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.

When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.

It is curious to observe what different ideals of happiness people cherish, and in what singular places they look for this well-spring of their life. Many look for it in the hoarding of riches, some in the pride of power, and others in the achievements of art and literature; a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds, or in search for knowledge.

The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.

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

People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.

Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.