The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.

The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.