We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.