We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.