We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.

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.

Success ... depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

His body rigid with terror as he waited for the savages to something horrible to him—bash his head with clubs, or stab him with spears, or… …or tap him on the shoulder.

I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.

If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.

The woman described in Proverbs 31 is not some ideal that exists out there; she is present in each one of us when we do even the smallest things with valor

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I don't think of myself as being tied.