You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

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

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.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.