I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
A people's speech is the skin of its culture.
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
To reject the word is to reject the human search.
It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.
Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.