Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.

My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, "Whose little boy are you?"

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one's own moral center and move through the world hoping that this center will guide one aright.

You write in order to change the world.

Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.