Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

Choose a challenge instead of competence

Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance, their dignity... and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the world.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.