Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?

The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'

Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.