In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.

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.

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.

I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?

If you are not able to ‘adjust everywhere’, then even the moksha, that you have in your hand, will go away.

My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.

I do not understand girls who imagine that something forbidden. You can prohibit someone, but did not imagine.

Andrew Calhoun tells the truth. To my knowledge, there is no better songwriter alive.

The idea that you make an experience that requires a conversation in a public place is training for the fact that culture is collective.

You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those who do expect something in return. They've been getting it.

If I hear the word 'retire,' it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television?

Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.