The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.

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

Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by their people in great truths.

History is a vast early warning system.

Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence.

For every low there is an equal but opposite high.

The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.