The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible.
No one can say Christianity has failed. It has never been tried.
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
There is no future for a people who deny their past.
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.
Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God.
True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a collective public. . . Thus especially the art of tone, developed with such singular diversity in instrumental music, will realize in the collective artwork its richest potential -- will indeed incite the pantomimic art of dancing in turn to wholly new discoveries and inspire the breath of poetry no less to an undreamed-of fullness. For in its isolation music has formed itself an organ capable of the most immeasurable expression - the orchestra.
I have no plan except to take care of the people I love.
I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.
What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.