"Securityis mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.… Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.… Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

"My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious."

"No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it."

"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."

"I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known."

"Where compassion abides, fear and resentment lose their dominion. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity."

"Clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."