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Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.
Address at Iona College (1984)
Do you blame me, ladies and gentlemen, for being reluctant to deliver to them the message that is traditional on commencement day?
Address at Iona College (1984)
Indeed, as I think about it, I have to conclude that these young people before me today are the best reason for hope that this world knows.
Address at Iona College (1984)
Saint Francis, Buddha, Muhammad, Maimonides — all spoke the truth when they said the only way to serve yourself is to serve others; and that Aristotle was right, before them, when he said the only way to assure yourself happiness is to learn to give happiness.
Address at Iona College (1984)
Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago.
We've never had it so good, most of us.
Nor have we ever complained so bitterly about our problems.
Address at Iona College (1984)
How can we tell our children that — when we have ourselves so often cried out in bitter despair at what we regarded to be the injustice of life — and when we have so often surrendered?
Address at Iona College (1984)
How simple it seems now. We thought the Sermon on the Mount was a nice allegory and nothing more. What we didn't understand until we got to be a little older was that it was the whole answer, the whole truth.
Address at Iona College (1984)