What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

He was trying to save both his faces.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

Live while you live, then die and be done with.

Touch water in the West and you touch everything.

Old and new kiss everywhere in Africa