Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.

Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.