We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

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.

If one dies to inspire, believe it or not he's already inspiring one's self

I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future.

We are in effect enculturating kids from the very beginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the space.

The brain processes information using 100,000 times less energy than we do right now with this computer technology that we have.

You've got to stop thinking everyone's problems can be solved by falling in love.

Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.

What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.

A lot of people need an infusion of confidence.

When you have the choice between being right and being kind just choose kind.