Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa to man there is nowhere a very wide gap either in structure or in behaviour. From this fact it is a highly probable inference that there is also nowhere a very wide mental gap.

I do so hate to leave this world.

Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.