"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."
- "I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good."
- "All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality."
- "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
- "The time is always right to do the right thing."
- "We must use time creatively."
- "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically."
- "Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness."
- "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy"