If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.

The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.