44 quotes
He had obtained a clearer view of his homeland by leaving it and seeing it through the eyes of others.
Poland (1983)
It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.
Hawaii (1959)
I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies.
The World Is My Home (1991)
On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.
Space (1982)
We guard them. We punish them if we recover them. We chain them. And still they seek their freedom.
The Covenant (1980)
A Pole is a man born with a sword in his right hand, a brick in his left. When the battle is over, he starts to rebuild.
Poland (1983)
In 1948 I addressed some students at Washington and Lee University, and in the question-answer period one young man observed with asperity, "But it's easy for you to write. You've traveled."
Return to Paradise (1951)
I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.
On a heroine in Tales of the South Pacific (1947)
You love the Hawaiians as potential Christians, but you despise them as people. I am proud to say that I have come to exactly the opposite conclusion, and it is therefore appropriate that I should be expelled from a mission where love is not.
Hawaii (1959)
In a small Polish farm community, during the fall planting season of 1981, events occurred which electrified the world, sending reverberations of magnitude to capitals as diverse as Washington, Peking and especially Moscow.
Poland (1983)
The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east.
Caribbean (1989)
About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small protuberance jutted out from the northwest corner of what would later become North America.
Alaska (1988)
I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.
The World Is My Home (1991)
Look, son, if you calculate on getting me drunk and outsmarting me, quit now, because you simply can't do it.
Hawaii (1959)
I was surprised when shortly after New Year's Day of 1983, the Governor of Texas summoned me to his office, because I hadn't been aware that he knew I was in town.
Texas (1985)
No invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons and daughters, the private passion of families and the ancient, unbreakable tie to all those who came before.
Poland (1983)
No other religion in history spread so rapidly as Islam . . . The West has widely believed that this surge of religion was made possible by the sword. But no modern scholar accepts that idea, and the Qur'an is explicit in support of the freedom of conscience."
I don't know who my parents were. I know nothing about my inheritance.
Academy of Achievement interview (1991)
...organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest.
Poland (1983)
Second, after a painful gap without any king, and a furious struggle by various foreign powers to elect men favorable to them, the Seym chose a pathetic Polish incompetent, who had the good sense to die rather promptly.
Poland (1983)