The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.

I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.

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.

The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.

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.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.