The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may.

We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to it. I do not want civil power combined with religious power. I want to make it clear that I am committed as a matter of deep personal conviction to separation.

Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them.

This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity to draw upon their skill and sagacityand the opportunity to provide the respect and recognition they have earned. It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years to lifeour objective must also be to add new life to those years.

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart permit it to take part in the complicated and increasingly sophisticated decisions that pour not only upon the President and upon the Congress, but upon all the citizens who exercise the ultimate power.