The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

... the task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel …

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially…

It is not enough to teach our young people to be successful... so they can realize their ambitions, so they can earn good livings, so they can accumulate the m…

Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

I want everybody really lost, and I want us all to be at home there.