Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow. You have to have moral courage to stick up to that - no matter what comes in your way, no matter what the obstacle and the opposition is.

I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.

in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.

Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.

A revolution is already taking place in India. Things are changing here already - peacefully and democratically. There's no danger of communism. There would be if we had a rightist government instead of mine.