Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.

Whoever debases others is debasing himself.

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person.

There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.