The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

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.

I cannot be critical of an infant whose only possible source of nourishment can be found in the dugs of a wolf.

Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.

Every single day was just a box on the calendar that I could put a red X through; each one brought me closer to Lucas and to liberty.

I knew I wanted to play around with genre-esque imagery, and the identity theft stuff came in the middle, when I was figuring out how the characters were connected to those images.

You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it.

You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that.

When one chants the holy name of Krishna, Krishna dances on the tongue and one wishes one had thousands of ears and thousands of mouths with which to better appreciate the holy names of God.

Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.

Everybody’s afraid of something.