The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.

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.

Anytime you're afraid to try something new...just remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the titanic.

Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest

I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life.

I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.

Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

Evil is, good or truth misplaced.

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.

Atheism can never be an institution ... it can never be more than a destitution.