Marya Mannes

"For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves."

"In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude."

"It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better."

"The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality."

"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."

"All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."