To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.

When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

There's no such thing as a good tax.