Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.

It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.