Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

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

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

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.