Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.

Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.

Why is there never a headline that says "Government program ends as its intended goal has been achieved"?

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

Don't push, don't resist. Let it happen. Nature will align everything.

How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.

I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.

If I'm going to fail, let me fail with something that I care deeply about.

The Jewish people, for their tiny numbers, have done superbly. They don't need me. They have Einstein. They have everybody - Maury Povich.

There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away.

French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint.

Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule well.