A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.

[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.

I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I'm not the man I once was

Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, 'Love your enemies.' It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals.

The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world.

If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.