“To defy the God of Progress is often to marry the Goddess of Poverty.”

“Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.”

“Where the conditions to which material progress... are most fully realized... where wealth is greatest... we find the deepest poverty, the sharpest struggle for existence, and the most enforced idleness... Material progress does not merely fail to relieve poverty - it actually produces it... This association of progress with poverty is the great enigma of our times. It is the central fact from which spring industrial, social, and political difficulties that perplex the world and with which statesmanship and philanthropy and education grapple in vain.”

“Strange invitations were often dancing lessons from the goddess.”

“Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.”

“Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.”