The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.

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.

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.

We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.

History is an accumulation of error.

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