The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other

There is nothing political about American literature.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.

Whoever will give sadaqa, his wealth will increase.

Despair can be like an iron band constricting the heart.

Do no evilness because it is a small one; do not leave a small deed undone because it is just a petty one.

For some players, luck itself is an art

You can't get too attached to any one shampoo. And conditioner, also.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.