Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.

Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.