| It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. |
| The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit. |
| If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring. |
| Generosity with strings is not generosity It is a deal. |
| The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. |
