Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.

Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope

What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.

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.

Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence.

The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us