If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.

whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.