We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.

When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.

The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.