It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.

It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.

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 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.

You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

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.

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.