“We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.”

the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

Great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

The boldness to face them, face them square.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Be solved if we have the will, the courage

There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

And when we lose faith in the system

So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Someone asked me…how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow-townsman of ours used to tell–Abraham Lincoln.

The test of any man lies in action.

I never really got over the fun of making letters.

You aren’t alive if you aren’t in need.

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.

no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.

The whole world will tell them what’s wrong with them–out loud and often.