The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States.

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.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

We should be most careful about retreating from the specific challenge of our age. We should be reluctant to turn our back upon the frontier of this epoch... We cannot be indifferent to space, because the grand slow march of our intelligence has brought us, in our generation, to a point from which we can explore and understand and utilize it. To turn back now would be to deny our history, our capabilities.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

No invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons and daughters, the private passion of families and the ancient, unbreakable tie to all those who came before.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.