If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whatever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. 

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.