... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.

Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about.

Serviceis love in action, love "made flesh"; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the act, and creativity the result with many by-products.

To grow is sometimes to hurt, but who would return to smallness?

A man's real and deep feelings are surely those which he acts upon when challenged, not those which, mellow-eyed and soft-voiced, he spouts in easy times.

... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capable of turning either way.

If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?

When we lose love, we lose also our identification with the universe and with eternal values--an identification which alone makesit possible for us to lay our lives on the altar for what we believe.

A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives.

I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country.

A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.

That was one of the things she loved about him. He assumed she could walk and chew gum at the same time. He never second-guessed her, and he didn't try to change her. He accepted.

I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like.

I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved.

There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.

The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the world, and the dangers it can bring for all of us.

If people are not listening to you as individuals, it's always good to get together and make a stand for something.

It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.