It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

The library is the temple of learning.

A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

There aren't any embarrassing questions — just embarrassing answers.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.