Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.