Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still goes to war.

Venice is all sea and sculpture.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.