The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

The real problem is that through our scientific genius we've made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we've failed to make of it a brotherhood.

There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.