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.

The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

The great challenge of the '90s... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of meeting the wide range of serious problems that are inherent in a world that has become a single geographic unit.

The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.

All men - whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans - have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies.

Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.