The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.

All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.

The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.

Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by their people in great truths.

The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and not out of notions or guesswork about what other people might like to read.