Dear Miss Pomeroy, I am saddened by the things I do not know. There are hundreds--thousands--of books in the world and I will never be able to read all of them.I am old.Walter

Just because you have a brain doesn't mean you are conscious

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

The language of mathematics, scientific observations, and our perceptivity together knit the window to reality.

Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.

Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.

We have already begun taking concrete steps to change the structure of our economy and, as we have discussed a great deal, to give it a more innovative quality.