"I am of old and young, of..." - Quote by Walt Whitman

“The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.”

“The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.”

“Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams.”

“I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.”

“Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.”

“My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.”

“To me, racial barriers do not exist in reality. If I say that 'everyone under the sun is a member of a universal family,' you may think that I am bluffing and being idealistic. But if anyone still believes in racial differences, I think he is too backward and narrow in his perspective. Perhaps he still does not understand man's equality and love.”

“During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.”

“The development of a kind heart, or feeling of closeness for all human beings, does not involve any of the kind of religiosity we normally associate with it...It is for everyone, irrespective of race, religion or any political affiliation.”