Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.

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

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

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.