Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by their people in great truths.

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

Nature has not been lavish in her endowments, but each person has his or her own potential in terms of achievement and service. The awareness of that potential is the discovery of purpose; the fulfillment of that potential is the discovery of strength.

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

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

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

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.