Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.

Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.

Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.