You see, when a nation threatens another nation the people of the latter forget their factionalism, their local antagonisms, their political differences, their suspicions of each other, their religious hostilities, and band together as one unit. Leaders know that, and that is why so many of them whip up wars during periods of national crisis, or when the people become discontented and angry. This is the explanation of all wars, all racial and religious hatreds, all massacres, and all attempts at genocide.

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India

We are not old unless we desire to be.

My literary success meant nothing to me

Money? I lost all taste for it.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.