Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Go away... I'm alright.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness.... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile.... Not a single one but has at some time wept.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.