The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.

People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren't worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others.

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.

Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.