Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile

Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.