At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

We will not have peace by afterthought.