One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpent-like qualities is to be sentimental, anemic and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.