I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

When a new book appears one should read an old one.

To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common... Celebrate it every day.

I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of the Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution, by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews.