They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.
Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. Strength may be physical, or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.