Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone

I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

The time has come for an all-out war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for "the least of these".

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.