Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

One believes in what one wants to believe in.

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!

Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.