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.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

I have found life so beautiful.

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.

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