The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.

There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.

Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

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