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

The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.

It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

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

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.

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.