 The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other. |
| Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. |
| I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. |
| Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. |
| Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. |
| The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. |
| The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. |
| In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. |
| Cynicism is humor in ill health. |
| Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. |
| Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. |
| Our true nationality is mankind. |
| No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. |
| Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. |
| You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. |
| Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. |
| The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. |
| If we don't end war, war will end us. |
| It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own. |
| 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 in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. |
