History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.

The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.

It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.

Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.

Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most of her kind.

In the black chaos where the seas and the skies become confused let the projectors blow their white trumpets of silence("Roundness")

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.

But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world?" = MEETING =

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

Often we need to use policy to level the playing field, or to be sure that a technology is managed in a responsible way.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.