it was only a hopeless fantasy, it passed like an april day, but a look and a word and the dreams they stirred they have stolen my heart away.

The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

Napoleon is always right.