The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.

There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.

The salvation of the world lies in the human heart.

I am in favor of [actions] that have authenticity, roots, originality, verve, balance, taste, communicativeness, challenge, relevance to their time-in short, things that make sense.

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.