When my brother died in 1966, my father began a grieving process that lasted almost twenty-five years. For all that time, he suffered from chronic, debilitating headaches. I took him to some of the country's major medical facilities, but no one could cure him of his pain.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.