"Progress is the life-style of man...." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Many great actions are committed in small struggles.”

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”

“If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.”

“It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.”

“It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.”

“Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.”

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

“When a man comes to me, I accept him at his best, not at his worst. Why make so much ado? When a man washes his hands before paying a visit, and you receive him in that clean state, you do not thereby stand surety for his always having been clean in the past.”

“In olden times when there was a war, it was a human-to-human confrontation. The victor in battle would directly see the blood and suffering of the defeated enemy. Nowadays, it is much more terrifying because a person in an office can push a button and kill millions of people and never see the human tragedy that he or she has created. The mechanization of war, the mechanization of human conflict, poses an increasing threat to peace.”