Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.