I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.

The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.

Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to keep informed as he did only thirty or forty years ago. Being "educated" today requires not only more than a superficial knowledge of the arts and sciences, but a sense of inter-relationship such as is taught in few schools. Finally, being "educated" today, in terms of the larger needs, means preparation for world citizenship; in short, education for survival.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope