Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.

The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.

There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.

Mourning has become unfashionable in the United States. The bereaved are supposed to pull themselves together as quickly as possible and to reweave the torn fabric of life. ... we do not allow ... for the weeks and months during which a loss is realized - a beautiful word that suggests the transmutation of the strange into something that is one's own.

We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.