If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.

The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world

Without aging white males, I doubt the 'New York Times' would survive. How many young people, females, Hispanics and blacks subscribe to the 'New York Times?'

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child

You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time

The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life