Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

What is asserted by a man is an opinion; what is asserted by a woman is opinionated. A woman with ideas and the ability to express them is something of a social embarrassment, like an unhousebroken pet.

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.

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

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.