Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.