The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.