Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.

War is the health of the state.

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.

All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.

Some things were better lost than found.

When the author admits to Christians that he was not a Christian himself, he says their dialogue became "distant and rehearsed, like a pitch for Ginsu knives.

I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have access to a fair trial and an impartial tribunal.

While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.

I'm at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things.

I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.

Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.

The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.

I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones.