If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.

Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.

Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.