There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.