The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

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.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.

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.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.