I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.

Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places.

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!

Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts?

Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.