A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.

Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends