It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people.

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.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

Use your little grey cells mon ami" (Hercule Poirot in 'The Mysterious Affair At Styles')

Behold we count them happy which endure.

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.

I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.

Patience is fine, but I'm not going to stop asking the Universe to make sense!

O happy, happy each man whom predestined fate leads to the holy rite of hill and mountain worship.

Once you feel grateful, you are in an energy that can create miracles.

...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.

The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible.