War remains the decisive human failure.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

The spirit should never grow old.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover either for grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much-cherished aspect of academic freedom.

Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.