Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.