Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

People decline invitations when they are "indisposed" physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.