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.

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.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

Every loneliness is a pinnacle

The force fields of nature are force fields of consciousness. They are force fields of knowledge.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

Training is bad for you! Training followed by rest and proper nutrition is good for you and will make you better prepared for the event you are training for.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

Your background or colour has nothing to do with your progress, but your endowments are the determining factors

The next battle being fought by e-commerce companies will be for customer loyalty.

Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.