Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.

The tragic evils of our life are so commonly unintentional. We did not start out for that poor, cheap goal. That aim was not in our minds at all....Look to the road you are walking on. He who picks up one end of [a] stick picks up the other.He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to.

It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations!

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

What a testing of character adversity is.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.