A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.

It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.