A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong — because someday you will have been all of these.
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.