Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons of principle and distinction from the organization's leading positions, but toward the installation of men whose character and affiliations would as far as possible preclude any serious challenge to governmental sovereignty.

... one doesn't really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.