Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. – George Santayana
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. – George Santayana
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. – George Santayana
I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more. – Martin Luther King,Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968