Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.

you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

Very few of us are what we seem.

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.