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.

Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

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

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.