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

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

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

You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.

The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'

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."

The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.