To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

Be flexible, but stick to your principles.

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the esteem of colleagues, or the admiration of the community, or the appreciation of patients. Success is the certain knowledge that you have become yourself, the person you will meant to be from all time. That should be reward enough.

... many of the things which we deplore, the prevalence of tuberculosis, the mounting record of crime in certain sections of the country, are not due just to lack of education and to physical differences, but are due in great part to the basic fact of segregation which we have set up in this country and which warps and twists the lives not only of our Negro population, but sometimes of foreign born or even of religious groups.

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.