I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.

An intensive human rights education for all communities needs to be provided to overcome the old prejudices.

The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.

When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

Blacks can get into medical school with a lower grade ... If that's true, a Jew should be able to play basketball with a lower net.

Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.

Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us to carry on. I now doubt that any of us will completely find and be found in this life.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.

We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.