This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx.

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?

I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe.