For all of us, as we grow older, perhaps the most important thing is to keep alive our love of others and to believe that our love and interest are as vitally necessary to them as to us. This is what makes us keep on growing and refills the fountains of energy.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.

We need our radicals.

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.