We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.

The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with a totalitarian enemy was to intimidate him. The trouble with this theory was that while we live in a world of plot and counterplot, we also live in a world of cause and effect. Whatever the cause for the decision to legitimize and regularize deceit abroad, the inevitable effect was the practice of deceit at home.

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

The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.

Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong.

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

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.