At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"

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

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 American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness . . . Bernie Siegel is helping to define and open up these new frontiers. In this sense he is in the best medical tradition.

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.

Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.

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.