The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought.

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.

The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up.