The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

Most people only do what they are asked to do; success comes to those who do a little more.

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.