Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds.

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.

Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.

Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

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