If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
If we don't end war, war will end us.
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Advertising is legalized lying.
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
Our true nationality is mankind.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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.
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.
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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.
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
