A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo.

Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born.

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.