William Sloane Coffin

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.