"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time."

"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."

"So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been."

"The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place."

"I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer."

"You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible."

"One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead."

"The richness of existence is found in simple harmonies, not superfluous splendors. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."