It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

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

The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.

Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

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.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.