Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major

The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world.

It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society. I put this down to our traditional racism and obsessive sectarianism. Even so, one would think that we would be encouraged to project ourselves into the character of someone of a different race or class, if only to be able to control him. But no effort is made.

"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.