Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.

Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.