You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.
Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.
To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need.
America's trying to do the best for its veterans.
Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.