The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for.

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.