Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.

If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.