If you live your life worried about the what-ifs, you're going to live a very desolate life.

You're alive, Haven, but when are you going to start living?

The depth of your art is subject to originality

civilization is the very root cause of the woes of civilization

All wealth is the product of labor.

Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.

People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

What is initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.

[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery.

If any one hates to be alone with himself, the chances are that he has not much of any self to be alone with.

Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.

One of the important principles I live by is the idea that you have to contemplate yourself as surrounded by the conditions you intend to produce.