The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

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

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

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.

Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of our unique estate in the cosmos. Little wonder that it becomes so easy for our young to regard human hurt casually or to be uninspired by the magic of sensitivity.

What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.

The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any longer be considered insoluble.