A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

The world doesn't celebrate your similarity but your difference

A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.

The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

to be black is to be very-hot.

You might as well deny 'Mormonism,' and turn away from it, as to oppose the plurality of wives.

How would you like it if, at your job, every time you made the slightest mistake a little red light went on over your head and 18,000 people stood up and screamed at you?

I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living.

We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.