The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.

the task of each family is also the task of all humanity. This is to cherish the living, remember those who have gone before, and prepare for those who are not yet born.

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.

We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.

Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.

It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children.