Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. 

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. 

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Our conscience is like an alarm bell.

America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

The nations that in fettered darkness we. Crave thee to lead them where great morning break.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.