Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.

If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.

Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

No one has been able to define or synthesize that precarious, splendid, and perhaps untidy instant when the creative process begins. This is what the uniqueness of the artist is all about. The transcendent right of the artist is the right to create even though he may not always know what he is doing.

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

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

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.