In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.

It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system.

After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

Be who you are and don't allow anyone to affect the confidence you have in your individuality.

God crowns us. Most people crown their Christmas trees with either an angel or a star. God uses both.

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard.

Less gossiping, more learning. Less complaining, more excelling. Less walls, more bridges. Less fear, more courage

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.

The taint of arrogance will I not know.