The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.

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

History is full of surprises.

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

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

The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.