To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very difficult.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

I never felt I left the stage.

There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.

The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.

Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.

men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

An old librarian once said to me, " whatever we deal with, coming here is always a visual reward.

I've seen what you're going to understand, dear.It made me patient when confronting your temper.

Overriding the old information in your mind with new information is easy, but to actually go further than just putting a veneer over your old mindset is the way forward.

One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.

I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate call me a bad guy, while he was my teammate, and if he did when I was gone what kind of teammate was he anyway?

I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.

I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living

Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.

You cannot become a master until you actually take the leap, do the work, make several thousand mistakes, and live to tell about it.