“News is only the first rough draft of history.”

In a free society these institutions must be wholly free – which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.

The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion.

Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor.

Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.

Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous.

Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of social adjustment springs from diversity and depends upon a tolerance of individual deviations from conventional ways and attitudes.

Thought that is silenced is always rebellious.

It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.

Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

Thought that is silenced is always rebellious.

Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin.

I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft.

You’ve got to have friends out there. You can’t do it alone. You form those relationships as the race moves along.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.

The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you during the race as far as drafting?

I used to say my biggest accomplishment was just getting drafted, whether it was the first pick or the 100th or whatever.

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.

“The Diagnosis” had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes.