I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Success won't just come to you. It has to be met at least halfway.

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, the mist is dispelled when a woman appears