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.

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.

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.

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

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.

From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.

Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

I’ve always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.

I write the most sexiest records out.

If you can't quit no matter how hard you try, then you have a chance to succeed.

I think the most interesting thing is what happens next.

Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.