Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it.

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.

Only very coarse persons wanted wars.

Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.