"A personality is a full congress of orators and pressure groups, of children, demagogues, communists, isolationists, war mongers, mugwumps, grafters, prayer-makers, adventurers and clerks; with each of these in a minority of one."

I’m not a guy that’s going to let my focus down.

"The things that happen to you make you who you are."

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

Policy debates should be grounded in rigorous empirical analysis.

The writer’s challenge is to find the universal in the particular.