The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

A better idea than my own is to listen.

Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.