The greatest miracle of all, the human being.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one lane, one meadow, one forest free from the debris of man and the stigma of his improvidence.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.