In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

"The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last."

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.

Every relationship has its drama and baggage.

I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.

A lot of trouble about prayer would disappear if only we realized - really realized - that we go to pray not because we love prayer, but because we love God.

The love of life is the root of all good.

How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?

Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself.