In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

The peoples of the earth are one family.

Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.

War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.