The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one.

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!

That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.

Almost as soon as it was lit it began to sound as though it were running down, but in fact it would continue to run down for a long time. He knew the feeling.

Do not let reading become a forgotten art

You have to read history. You have to have a sense of history.

Give us grace to listen well.

No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor.

We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair

The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.