When the body is in pain, a distorted area of awareness is crying out to the rest of awareness for help.
My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.
I like a leader who can, while pointing out a mistake, bring up the good things the other person has done. If you do that, then the person sees that you have a complete picture of him. There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.
You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.
I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.