Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible..

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live..

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is..

Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disasso….

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality..

I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel t….

The control center of your life is your attitude..

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences..

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility..

Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong..

The great challenge of the '90s... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of meeting the wide range of serious pro….

All men - whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans - have obligations to one ano….

The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physi….

Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. T….

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man..

Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that ….

A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure..

Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of our unique estate i….

History is an accumulation of error..

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life..

Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the i….