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

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

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.

If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.

America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

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.

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.