The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands.

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.