The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

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.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

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.

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.