The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.

All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.