"So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved."

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."

"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity."

"This is the night to go to the theatre, like Abraham Lincoln."

"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."

"The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor."

"Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view."

"The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning."

"I have loved like a child collecting shells along the shore line, discarding one shell for another of seemingly more outward beauty with no knowledge of the pearls that were hidden within."

"It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them."

"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."

"Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe."