Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Comparison is the thief of all joy.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Nothing was ever accomplished by anyone who said 'It can't be done.'

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.