The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

We all grow older and we all have to live with ourselves.

I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?