An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

Believing in gods always causes confusion.

We must have hope or starve to death.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

What the common man cannot understand he hates.