Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.

Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.

Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.

I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.

Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.