health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

Literature is my Utopia

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

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

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

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.