Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons of principle and distinction from the organization's leading positions, but toward the installation of men whose character and affiliations would as far as possible preclude any serious challenge to governmental sovereignty.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

That was the trouble with experience; it taught you that most people were capable of anything, so that loyalty was never quite on firm ground -- or, rather, became a matter of pardoning offenses instead of denying their existence.