People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in catching up with us. So, just once in a while let us exhault the importance of ideas and information.

We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.

Your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.

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