Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.

The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it.

Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.

H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.