America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.

It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without noticing them.

So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.

Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.

Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.

The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments.

Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

Any death prior to the heat death of the universe is premature if your life is good.

Seriously, that woman is so much crazy crammed into a small space that she's practically a crazy singularity.

Getting married is a good deal like going to a restaurant with your friends. You order what you want and then when you see what the other fellow got you wish you had taken that.

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a vehicle for things.

There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.

I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.

Christian holiness does not being sinless, but rather it means struggling not to give in and always getting up after every fall.