The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

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

I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.