Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

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 greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.