The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.