Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.