Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

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

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.

Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed.

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.