The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth.

Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.

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.

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