Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.

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

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.