It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can help others. It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can be helped in a lasting way.

Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.