“What counted was not the facts but the fears.”

“The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only mans frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to rej...”

“Every man has two counties--his own and America.”

“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.”

“The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.”

“You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.”