Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

William F. Buckley, Jr. does not so much speak as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.

Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.

Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.

To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents.

We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.

Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.

Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.

In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.

Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

Your greatest weapon is your MIND! Lock and load it with the greatest ammunition

Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

I attempt from love's sickness to fly.

Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.

You need to fail in order to find the right solution.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.

Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.