Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.