You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

In the statement accompanying the text of Lahore Conspiracy Case Ordinance, the Viceroy had stated that the accused in this case were trying to bring both law and justice into contempt. The situation afforded us an opportunity to show to the public whether we were trying to bring law into contempt or whether others were doing so.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

There is no retirement age for writers…

I never had any desire to defend myself, and never did I seriously think about it.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.