Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

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.

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.