Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

I don't want to be married. I don't know - it sounds crazy, but in my mind, it's all connected. You get married, you have kids, you grow old, then you die. Somehow, it seems to me, if you didn't get married, you wouldn't die.

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.