if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

It is not just about what you can do that will make you a leader. It is about how well you can do it.

Il me semble que je serais toujours bien la ou je ne suis pas.It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to exercise her own.

The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.

My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

Take the best that exists and make it better.

Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism.

He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world.

I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist and subject.

Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.