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

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.

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.

World peace can be achieved only if there is nothing left to conquer

The tribe often thinks the visionary has turned his back on them. When, in fact, the visionary has simply turned his face to the future.

We can best honor our dead by livin' well. Moving' forward dusna mean y love them any less. It just means ye're still alive.

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

Journeying through secret doors, curving corridors, and connecting rooms into the mountain was like being digested by the different organs of a deity.

If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.

Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think that much about children; I'm not a child educator; I'm just a former child.

I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.

Bill Knott's poems are . . . rhetorical fluff . . . and fake.

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.