"Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful."

"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."

"As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost."

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

"Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants."

"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."

"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."

"I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me."