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.

Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell.

So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.

We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.

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

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.