You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

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

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.

Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?