The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.

Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.

To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.