Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.