We are all born equally far from the sun.

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

Your war memories will be with you forever, you'll be asked about them thousands of times after the war is over. People will get their respect for you from that-partly from that, don't get me wrong-but if you can say that you were up front where there was some real shooting going on, then that will mean a whole lot to you in years to come.

The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.