“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.

Lets talk to one another instead of about one another.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Never let your fears hold you back from pursuing your hopes.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.

There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.

My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.

I don’t take anything personal. I just have a certain file in my head, so Earthlings must be careful with what they say.

We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.

Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I’m certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.