We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.

Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance.

I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

Anger is one letter short of danger.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.