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.

At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.

I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the plight of a single person...Out of my response to an individual develops an awareness of a problem to the community, then to the country, then to the world.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.

We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.