Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one' - no nation can do that.

All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion.

The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter is our reaction to immediate incongruities and those which do not affect us essentially. Faith is the only possible response to the ultimate incongruities of existence, which threaten the very meaning of our life.

I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't.