Manners are love in a cool climate.

Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.

If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.

Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

You don't have to do anything.