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

The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.

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

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.

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

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.