I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.

I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, "Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?" I couldn't think of anyone.

He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.

Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.

...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.