To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice - however much we might desire it.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and embellish the earth, instead of shaking it.