a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

There are no have-to's, just choices

In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.

Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.