In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing. Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself. The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again. Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. Action is the antidote to despair. No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. | 
