In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

Never give up on anybody.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs and holler, the problem has not only entered the public consciousness -- it has also become a part of the public conscience. At that point, things in our democracy begin to hum.

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.

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

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.