America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime.

The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.