A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.

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

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.

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

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.

You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

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.