Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment - and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning.

Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.

Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.

America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.