“As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‘We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.’”
“It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure, but to be determined not to fail.”
“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.”
“Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.”
“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”
“Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.”
“We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.”
“On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies.”
“The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.”
“I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.”