As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.

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

It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.

No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.