 Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. |
| I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist. |
| Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. |
| The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. |
| I want to be all used up when I die. |
| Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. |
| Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not? |
| The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. |
| Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. |
| Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. |
| Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. |
| Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. |
| If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do. |
| General consultant to mankind. |
| Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. |
| An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. |
| The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. |
| Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. |
| Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. |
| You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" |
