History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.