America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

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

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

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.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.