For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.

I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.

How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.

What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.

Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.