Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.

I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

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

Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.