Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong...

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes!

No daydreaming. No music, film, art, creative thinking or business.

How now, spirit, whither wander you?

When undesirable and ugly addendum enters a man's life history, it become acceptable as part of the process of growing up.

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns.

Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.

History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.

Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.

But instead they tell you they'll come to fix your cable between noon and five, and I say, okay, I'll pay my next bill between July and November, but they don't laugh.

In Australia, kids play in American accents.