Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth.

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.