It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.

When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for having on hand a good supply of those pocket books, which were so common in that period. I must have read a couple hundred of them, and they did a lot to save my sanity.

I had been educated with free scholarships. I went to nine different universities, always at public expense, and when you have that experience, you are almost obligated to give it back. It's as simple as that.

Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.

Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don’t portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

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