We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it.