Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.

Our task must be to free ourselves…by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

Networking is more about ‘farming’ than it is about ‘hunting’. It’s about cultivating relationships.