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

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

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

After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.

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.

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

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.