As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.

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.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.

One of the fundamental points about religious humility is you say you don't know about the ultimate judgment. It's beyond your judgment. And if you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.

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