Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.

In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.