How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate, to answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.