All my successes have been built on my failures.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

Departure should be sudden.

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.