No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.

By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything

The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered.

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

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.