The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.

Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself.

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

For every low there is an equal but opposite high.

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.

It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.