The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!