Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

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

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.