Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

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

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

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 Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

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

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.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.