Every previous era looks innocent.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.

The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.

Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

Shall I be'her'?

Gratitude can transform any situation. It alters your vibration moving you from negative energy to positive

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don't fool with that.

To laugh is proper to man.

I'm sticking with the Heinekens, but doing a few shots here and there.

Your best friendships are with people who share your world view.

The price of change is measured by our will and courage, our persistence, in the face of difficulty.

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.