I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth.

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.

More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens.

The American people today are involved in a warfare more deadly than the war in Vietnam, but few of them seem aware of it and even fewer of them are doing anything about it. This is a war that is being waged against the American environment, against our lands, air, and water, which are the basis of that environment.

Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.

History is an accumulation of error.

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.