“We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”
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Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.