We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual. No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself. An achievement is simply a dream upon which we have labored. The race is not always to the swift.
More progress is made by attacking problems than by attacking people.
The worth of an individual is not related to the color of his or her skin. War does not determine who is right - only who is left. The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when you have only one idea.