The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.

Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.

If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.