What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.