War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.

When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.

Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King and, faced with the choice to acquiesce or resist, took less than three hours to make her decision, knowing it might be mortal.