Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

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

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

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

The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.