Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?