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.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

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

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

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

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