The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

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.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

We all grow older and we all have to live with ourselves.

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.