The needs of society determine its ethics.

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Superficial nonconformism... leaves our rational structures indifferent. Questions of moral action and of physical appearance are increasingly irrelevant; they…