We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

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.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.