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.

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

Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

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

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 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.