I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.