You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

People who know the truth have no business to allow the powers of darkness to silence them on any point that matters.

if the world is not safe for babies you are never going to get a democracy worth having.

Every heart desires a mate.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Everything comes out of time.

Either that information was not believed or inexplicably never passed on to the regional military command. When the attack finally came, Vienamese civilians were defenseless.

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

I ended up spending years on a spiritual quest - diving into the world's great spiritual traditions.

When you have it, you spend it. The mistake is to try to spend it when you haven't got it.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.