It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.
There is a growing wave in this country of fear, and of intolerance which springs from fear. Sometimes it is a religious intolerance, sometimes it is a racial intolerance, but all intolerance grows fr...
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being- we can do it!
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
Happiness is not a goal it is a byproduct.
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.
I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a fri...
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priori...
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived thr...
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangem...