Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

There is no beauty without order.

endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit, destroying other lives. Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

Most mothers kiss and scold together.

All birth is unwilling.