Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

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

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon for new openings. Bursts of energy do not spring from a spirit of defeat. Ultimately, helplessness leads to hopelessness.

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.

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.

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

Nature has not been lavish in her endowments, but each person has his or her own potential in terms of achievement and service. The awareness of that potential is the discovery of purpose; the fulfillment of that potential is the discovery of strength.