“The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,”

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.

It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.

A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

Great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

The boldness to face them, face them square.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Be solved if we have the will, the courage

There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

.Farmers are not criticized for routinely giving their (live)stock nutritional supplements…

The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth.

I love acting.

If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

The Last Argument of Kings.

Wars–and what is war except crime on a mass scale?–destroy rather than produce.