Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.

It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case." --

The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.