What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.

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

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.

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