What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?

Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.

The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.

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.