he thoughtless knowers will call you a red or a communist or a capitalist or some name that expresses their aversion to any mental activity. But somebody must take a chance. The monkeys did who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in the trees making faces at us monkeys who did.

It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings

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

he thoughtless knowers will call you a red or a communist or a capitalist or some name that expresses their aversion to any mental activity. But somebody must take a chance. The monkeys did who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in the trees making faces at us monkeys who did.

My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.

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