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.

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.

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.

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

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.

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?