The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

the proper place to eat lobster ... is in a lobster shack as close to the sea as possible. There is no menu card because there is nothing else to eat except boiled lobster with melted butter.

It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.

It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.