Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers.

The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age.

When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.