When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

The world loves talent but pays off on character.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.