In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude. If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.

There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.