The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding.... Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future.

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.

Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.

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.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.