The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.

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.

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 only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the vital ingredient for enabling a patient to get rid of whatever is ailing him.