A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.

It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.

No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.

[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.

In the distant future, I don't want to be remembered; I want to remember!

My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.

It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.

I eat eight bags of chips in one sitting, and then nothing for a day or two. I learned that my body thought it was starving, so it would hold on to fat.