To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.