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.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all.

Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to keep informed as he did only thirty or forty years ago. Being "educated" today requires not only more than a superficial knowledge of the arts and sciences, but a sense of inter-relationship such as is taught in few schools. Finally, being "educated" today, in terms of the larger needs, means preparation for world citizenship; in short, education for survival.

Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead.

Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.