One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

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The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

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Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

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Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

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The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found

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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

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You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

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No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity

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