It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.