Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

Above all we need, particularly as children, the reassuring presence of a visible community, an intimate group that enfolds us with understanding and love, and that becomes an object of our spontaneous loyalty, as a criterion and point of reference for the rest of the human race.

The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man's cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity.

Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development.

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.