Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

No one can be wrong with man and right with God.

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and I love to do it.