Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

"The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last."

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass.

All Children Have Brain Damage!

The greatest test of faith is when you don't get what you want, but still you are able to say Thank You Lord.

Live without seeing, but be what you are.

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

Cats will always lie soft.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.