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

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

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

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

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.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.

I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

The boy was still looking at him. "Your family?" he asked.Salva shook his head."Me, too, " the boy said. He sighed, and Salva heard that sigh all the way to his heart.

the problem at this point is that there is a problem.

Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

Are you kidding? I jumped off a building -- of course I'm hurt.

And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.

The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.

And if I was humming "Happy Birthday" and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life—well, that was nobody's business, was it?

Fortunately, Hollywood is open to change. It's just a question of how to go about doing it.

it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove