“I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.”

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.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

Give a civil servant a good case and he’ll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.

Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. I’ve come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death…is the true measure of the Divine within us.

Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.

You can get him out of your study, but you can’t get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise.

Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.

Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head.