History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility toward a community of nations only by courting the prospective guilt of the atomic bomb.

I've long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I've long felt that the average Christian didn't realize the tremendous capacity for civic righteousness among our Jewish people.

The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.

Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

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