A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word. A man named Hitler made it a term of abuse, a matter of suspicion, because those who were not with him were against him, and liberals had no use for Hitler. And then another man named McCarthy cast the same opprobrium on the word. ... We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.