Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn't there be a quarrel about a word? If you're not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning to me by moving your ears? The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only thing worth fighting about.

Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.