As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able to conduct their lives as free men. Those societies where men know they are free are often democracies, but sometimes they have strong chiefs and kings.they have, however, one common characteristic: they are all alike in making certain freedoms common to all citizens, and inalienable.

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.

The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.

... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love--not this efficient, philanthropic self.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.