I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.