Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.