Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.