I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.

Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.

A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce and the indissolubility of the marriage tie.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.