Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

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

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.