"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it."

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom"

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."

"Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?"

"Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood."

"This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven."

"One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong."

"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

"Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well."