In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to think about such things, because the body is so greedy for attention.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.