the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable.

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.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude

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

Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one lane, one meadow, one forest free from the debris of man and the stigma of his improvidence.

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