I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

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

A man by himself is in bad company.

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.