Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

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.

Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.