Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

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.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.