Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.