Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is unconfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers tempramentally do not crave comfort and convenience - if they did they would live elsewhere.

Where I would like to discover facts, I find fancy. Where I would like to learn what I did, I learn only what I was thinking. Theyare loaded with opinion, moral thoughts, quick evaluations, youthful hopes and cares and sorrows. Occasionally, they manage to report something in exquisite honesty and accuracy. That is why I have refrained from burning them.

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

I don't understand it, and I don't like what I don't understand.

Einstein is loved because he is gentle, respected because he is wise. Relativity being not for most of us, we elevate its author to a position somewhere between Edison, who gave us a tangible gleam, and God, who gave us the difficult dark and the hope of penetrating it.