The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

That all war is physically frightful is obvious; but if that were a moral verdict, there would be no difference between a torturer and a surgeon. There are certain intellectuals who are too bright to be content with merely praising peace but who are infuriated by anybody praising war. If no war is possible, all criminality has its chance

The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.