I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.

Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.

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.

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.