If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.

It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.

All men - whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans - have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?