When you’re old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

In our times, significantly, the three outstanding voices against violence have been silenced by murder – Mahatma Gandhi in India, Archbishop Romero in El Salvador, and Dr. Martin Luther King, here at home.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there’s hardly ever a woman inside.

One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be ‘correct.’ There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.

Influence comes out of the work that you’ve done and the things you’ve stood for. Influence and power shouldn’t be given to just anybody who wants them.

A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn’t inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

You may never reach a solution, but you’re never absolved from the responsibility of trying.

Good behavior is everybody’s business, and good taste can be everyone’s goal.

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.