"Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God."

"A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born."

"Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke."

"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy."

"I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war."

"Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times."

"It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government."

"There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea."