Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.

People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.

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

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.

The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as President, lived for more than thirty years after the White House; Truman, who worked intensely and gaily, lived for twenty