I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress....Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud....Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest.

This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.