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

Losing money is a big loss, losing friends is greater than the loss, also lost all faith is lost

For all of us, as we grow older, perhaps the most important thing is to keep alive our love of others and to believe that our love and interest are as vitally necessary to them as to us. This is what makes us keep on growing and refills the fountains of energy.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)

The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.