In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum."(Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)

Speaking as a Christian, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the apostle Peale appalling.

It is often easier to fight for one’s principles than it is to live up to them.

In America, anybody can be president.That's one of the risks you take.

I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

In a fight to the death, I would in no doubt throw the fight.signed.....A pacifist

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.

We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.

The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.

Suffering and drama begin when you lie to yourself, even if you don't realize you are lying.

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

None can be so true to your secret as yourself.