The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.

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

Wounds are the fertile ground where flowers of kindness and wisdom will grow and thrive.

The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.

I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others

I find the worst audition is the no audition.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.

I always do big birthday things. In three years, I'm 70. I'm going to do something outrageous. In America, everyone's always hiding their age.

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.

We shoot double episodes in 15 days in Los Angeles.

The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.