Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.