This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

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.

Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.