The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.

A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.

I think young people ought to seek that differential experience that is going to knock them off dead center. I was a typical American school boy. I happened to get straight A's and be pretty good in sports. But I had no great vision of what I could be. And I never had any yearning.

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.