Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
