My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

The unfed mind devours itself.

The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.

It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise. The simple cannot fathom how any man would dare presume to prevail, while the wise are amazed that any reasonable man would want the world, assuming he could get it.

Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.

The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.