“At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.”

To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.

To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.

We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.

Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.

When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.

We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.

Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?

I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

Everybody fights demons. Some are worse than others.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

I’m not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.