What does one do about the dead? They live forever.

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.

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

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.

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.

Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

Train, don't strain.

People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

I want to create something that you haven't heard lyrically before. It's part of my job, and even though some of my songs are love songs, I tend to talk about love in different ways.

When you draw a western correctly, you create such drama, such dilemma that you think you almost don't want to admit who you might have been.

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.