When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

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 often learn to just earn dirty paper and forget to gain the wisdom needed to earn a life.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Doesn't matter how menial may be the job that you're doing today. If you have dreams, that will turn into something positive in the future.

I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

I was trying to find a new home in the world.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.

Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.