A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

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.

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.

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Just this once, ’ he says almost more to himself than to me. ‘Just one moment.’ Then he leans down and kisses me.

Applaud my friends, the comedy is over...[on his death bed]

The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patient’s conversion to the therapist’s interpretation.

When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth

I'm all over my poems, even if their relation to my everyday life is that of dream to reality.

Dear young people, the Church depends on you! She needs your lively faith, your creative charity and the energy of your hope. Your presence renews, rejuvenates and gives new energy to the Church.

There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.

A man who limits his interests limits his life.