What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.

Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.