The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

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.

Nature has not been lavish in her endowments, but each person has his or her own potential in terms of achievement and service. The awareness of that potential is the discovery of purpose; the fulfillment of that potential is the discovery of strength.

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.

The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.