I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what individuality implies. The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies.

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

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

There's truths you have to grow into.

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.