Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.

The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.

When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the spirit of love for our fellow people, regardless of race, color, or creed, shall fill the world, making real in our lives and our deeds the actuality of human brother- and sisterhood, until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes."