We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard.

All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.

There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.

Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.

God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.

I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it.

I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.