People are often led to causes and often become committed to great ideas through persons who personify those ideas. They have to find the embodiment of the idea in flesh and blood in order to commit themselves to it.

A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends

Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.