We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.

In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.