It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.

The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of facts; it is the acquiring of a different sense of life, a different kind of intuition about the nature of things.

When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.