We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.

There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear is lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating... Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.