In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

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

Infants are interesting only to their parents.

A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.

The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.

No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.