Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.

The way we treat our children in the dawn of their lives and the way we treat our elderly in the twilight of their lives is a measure of the quality of a nation.

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

We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.

Peace of mind is another way of saying that you've learned how to love, that you have come to appreciate the importance of giving love in order to be worthy of receiving it.