Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

The past may not hurt you, but it won't challenge you, either.

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

Giving people like Dodd and Frank more authority is like rewarding an arsonist with gasoline and matches.

You make the decision with vision and god makes the provision.

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes.