If you travel the earth, you will find it is largely divided into two classes of people-people who say 'I wonder why such and such is not done" and people who say "Now who is going to prevent me from doing that thing?"

Leadership is the intelligent use of power.

Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.