Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

The good thing about winning the race against time is that even though your time is diminishing you always have a product to show for it.

Beliefs are many but truth is one.

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails why should one condemn oneself to live day in day out with people one does not like and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

The road to publication is like a churro - long and bumpy, but sweet.

I'm not someone who feels like I have to do it the same way. I never feel restricted. It all should grow out of different moments and if it goes completely different that's how it should go.

Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior.

‎What is to prevent, say, an uprising?

There is magic in patience, you know.