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

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

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

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

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

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