Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys.

Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do.

People make life. The more people, the more life.

The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I have learned in my lifetime is that the process of maturing gradually turns the mind away from the small-self to the greater-self that is only served by serving others.

To be alive is sufficient evidence that we are needed in the world. Otherwise we wouldn't be here.

If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance and energies, leaving us nothing of value to contribute to the commonwealth.

All life is a delusion of the senses.