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.

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.

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.

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

The greatest miracle of all, the human being.

The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

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.