At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.

A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.

I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?

By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.

Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.

How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?

I would wish you gods speed but I don’t want you to waste time looking for him.

In life as in chess forethought wins.

Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.

If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

Always be consistent.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

And that one is gone. A home run for Mickey Mantle! How do you like that?

I don't trust politicians. I think that by the time they've made it, with the concessions they've had to make in that position, I don't believe they still have the beliefs they had at the root.

The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.