"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

"All things truly wicked start from innocence."

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

"The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for."

"Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes."

"Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times."

"Humility is not weakness in leadership; it is the cornerstone of unassailable respect. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."