What do I "think" of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.

He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.

The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like the breaking of a barrier. He thought, perhaps the basic secret the scientists have not discovered, the first fount of life, is that which happens when a thought takes shape in words.