A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

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.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward.

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

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic.