Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very difficult.

Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

I never felt I left the stage.

There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.

The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.

Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.

men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.

Forgiveness is knowing and remembering what happened, but choosing to move beyond it.

Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals, on whom, on account of me, their Creator, he ought to have compassion.

Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.

Everything is interconnected. My interest is linked to everyone else's. Our survival and future are linked. Therefore the destruction of your so-called enemy is actually the destruction of your self.

I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.

Always stand by form against force.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest, Then is doomsday near.

You cannot have a cake and eat it too. Either you eat it, or you have it.