And the most successful leader of all is one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which belong in his present picture but which are not yet there.

We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences ... From War to Peace is not from the strenuous to the easy existence; it is from the futile to the effective, from the stagnant to the active, from the destructive to the creative way of life ... The world will be regenerated by the people who rise above these passive ways and heroically seek, by whatever hardship, by whatever toil, the methods by which people can agree.

The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.

Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.

Give your difference, welcome my difference, unify all difference in the larger whole - such is the law of growth. The unifying of difference is the eternal process of life - the creative synthesis, the highest act of creation, the at-onement.

The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader.

We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.