"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."

"One day we will have to stand before the God of history and we will be asked what did we do with these moments of great moral challenge."

"Nothing pains some people more than having to think."

"It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps."

"The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state."