Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

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

The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

The chief source of problems is solutions.

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.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

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