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

Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.

... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it is feeble-minded to strive except for one's own private profit, is a lonely thing and a hazardous business. Over and over men have proved that they prefer the hazards of war with all its suffering. It has its compensations.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.

Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the threshold of his potentialities without a culture in which he participates. Conversely, no civilization has in it any element which in the last analysis is not the contribution of an individual.

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.