We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that, a Jew behaves in such a way, a Negro thinks in a different way. The lazy generalities - 'You know how women are ... Isn't that just like a man?' The world cannot be understood from a single point of view.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

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

What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.