It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.