Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

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

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Completeness is rare in history.

In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.