The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

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.

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.

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.

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.