The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask what they believe, just observe what they do.

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

I don't need you by my side. But I want you there. Very much want you there. That, I think, saysmore. Means more."He took the hand she held out to him. "We'll go down. James should be here soon

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme.

I like to think about the genre, the essay or the memoir, as much as I enjoy writing within its fluid parameters. And teaching allows me to think about it, to articulate it, and to explore it.

When I receive a new role, I completely become my character.

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and have its truth compared with competing "belief systems".

In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.