Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.

Watch what you ask for you just might get it.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.

Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.

Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.

The guy I've never worked with that is pissing me off is Tom Hanks. I want to work with Tom Hanks more than anyone.

Basically, the single-most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

He was a man, that he always performed his promises, that he had never said he would return.