Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.