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

The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.

those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.

I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed is not a mechanical one. It is a problem alive and throbbing with human pain.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

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.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.