We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.