What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.