The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our doctrine runs as follows: Our Way is the Only Way.

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

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 A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

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

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.