To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people. 

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize your age.

My future is righteousness.