Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word. A man named Hitler made it a term of abuse, a matter of suspicion, because those who were not with him were against him, and liberals had no use for Hitler. And then another man named McCarthy cast the same opprobrium on the word. ... We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

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

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

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

... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.