Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.

The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion

The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.

Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance.

Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.