As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.

We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics

I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a human being to give up.

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

It's not worthy o human beings to give up.

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

Her chest feels very tight, as if she's suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you're the bomb.

A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.

The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!

It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.

I was loosely aware that most of my characters were fundamentally selfish people, but I didn't intentionally make that a theme.

I don't believe in weak women, I believe women in general are pretty powerful beings. I don't know anything else.

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!