It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

Success is the result achieved when nobody answers.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.

Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.

It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.