Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion

I now see Norman Thomas as indeed a liberal, but as a real, old-fashioned, unreconstructed liberal who believes in freedom and justice for everybody.

One cannot demand that anybody be a hero, though one can hope for it.

A foundation is a large amount of money completely surrounded by people who want some.

Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance".

I do not know the answers to life's hard questions, but I do know the One who knows them and that's sufficient...for now.

Change is not a force to be feared, but an opportunity to be seized.

Try not to take the glory that belongs to God.

I would say that's my normal thing, salad for lunch with chicken or some sort of protein and then pasta.

Let God talk to you and minister to you, where you get honest with Him - here's what I do well and don't do well; here are my shortcomings, my strengths, and my gifts.

Running in Central Park is my favorite thing to wake up and do. I have my own specific path that I have to run every single time. There's a little bit of OCD involved, but I love it.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

If the authors and custodians of history turn out to have an attractive image, it is only reasonable to look beyond and ask whether the image they construct is accurate.

The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.

Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson I thought, what am I doing this for? I don't ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.'