I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.