No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one' - no nation can do that.

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

When the mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it.

It became a weekend of reading, of trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she'd left for me.

The internet has become a political space. I think that is one of the most important developments in the past decade.

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750, 000 girls per year.

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.

I have the right to life, liberty and chicken wings.

Don't try to start a career in LA, unless money is all you're interested in.

I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.

Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.