The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.

We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.