When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.