An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art