The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.

It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.

My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.