A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician |
A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride. |
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide |
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide |
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there. |
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. |
Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall. |
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. |
Mothers of Teenagers Know Why Animals Eat Their Young |
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male. |
Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent. |
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move |
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move |
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search. |
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. |