The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good." This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth.

Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.

Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.

The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.