We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.