There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.

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.

We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other.

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

There's boldness in being assertive; there's strength and confidence.

There's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness.

When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

I'd rather see twenty thousand smiling faces than twenty thousand crying people.

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

Life, love, boys—it was all about balance. ~Anna Percy