The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

Good fathers make good sons

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.