In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

Reality in strong doses frightens.

Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.