Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of official gentlemen, living luxurious lives, mostly stupid, and all without imagination or heart, have chosen that it should occur rather than that any one of them should suffer some infinitesimal rebuff to his country`s pride.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.