Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

My proudest accomplishment was that I never dropped a bomb, fired a bullet, or shot a missile.

We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.

During the period of the Saturn-Apollo missions we were pilgrims in space, ranging from home in search of knowledge. Now we will become shepherds tending our technological flocks, but like the shepherds of old, we will keep our eyes fixed on the heavens.

I believe in the separation of church and state. The government has the right to say what happens in a civil case, like in a court house. And religious people have a right to say what happens in a church congregation. They are two completely separate things.