One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests.

The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics.

The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression

A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.

We are so busy with our everyday lives that we often forget how to live.

Love is an active action.

The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

Maximum difficulty isn't the same as optimal difficulty.

All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.

Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.