In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there should be two

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life has been wasted. Any passionate and courageous life seems good in itself, yet one feels that some element of delusion is involved in giving so much passion to any humanly attainable object. And so irony creeps into the very springs of one's being.

Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.