We need our radicals.

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.

The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans.

Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.