You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.

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.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.