Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing.

Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.

One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.

To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense