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

The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.

We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new expression in terms of the framework which our new knowledge gives us. Science forces religion to deal with new ideas in the theoretical realm and new forces in the practical realm.

Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory.

He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.

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.

No man need stay the way he is.