A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

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

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.