For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.

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.