The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!

I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour's practice a day if I were busy and happy the rest of the time. You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

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.