I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that it is through strength, through the fact that people who know what people need are working to make this country a better place for all people, that we will help the world to accept our leadership and understand that, under our form of government and through our way of life, we have something to offer them.

Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.