In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable.

No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.