All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; in doing so, the affluent Americans will eventually have to face themselves with the question that Eichman chose to ignore: How responsible am I for the well-being of my fellows?

Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone

Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.

If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.

A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought, within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world.

In a real sense faith is total surrender to God .

I just want to leave a committed life behind.