Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.

We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. We elect expensive masters to do our work for us, and then blame them because they work for themselves and for their class.

When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.

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

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.