The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes and fears rather than with their minds.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

When people ask me to compare the 20th century to older civilizations, I always say the same thing: "The situation is normal."

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with from people , stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.