One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

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

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

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.

It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.