It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.

It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way that, for practical purposes, only those were immoral who drank too much or made too copious love. Those who indulged in any or all of the other deadly sins could look down in righteous indignation on the lascivious and the gluttonous.... In the name of all lechers and boozers I most solemnly protest against the invidious distinction made to our prejudice.

...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.