You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.

You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.