The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.

The word good has many meanings.