Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.

The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.