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.

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

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."

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.

The major cause of problems are solutions

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

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