Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual. . . but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.

The best speakers know enough to be scared…the only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained the butterflies to fly in formation.

I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.