Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.

I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.

How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.