I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity

Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.

Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed.

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.