Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?

It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.

Love alone could waken love.

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.