With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.

Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.