I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

Beginnings are always messy.