Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.

I prefer to stroll which has a buddy at nighttime, than by itself inside the light.

Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.

I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

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.

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

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.