To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

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.

Knowledge is borrowed wisdom is earned.

I don't believe in virgin sacrifice. It encourages promiscuity at an early age

The stories in books hate the stories contained in newspapers.

I don't take roles that are 'just another role.' I'm interested in learning more about myself and about humanity. So it should change you by the time it's done.

REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

I've lost the one girl I found.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

God promises to open the door when we knock, and to always welcome us back into his love, no matter how far we have strayed.

Friends are flowers in life's garden.

I got really into rock - soft, romantic rock was my jam.