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Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.

The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare.

When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.

Social change comes through people.

In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.

There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.