"When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be."

"Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed."

"In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love."

"By March 1918, Lenin's Bolshevik regime, then just five months old, had knowingly killed more of its political opponents than Czarist Russia had in the whole preceding century."

"It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them."

"Here's to our wives and sweethearts - may they never meet."

"If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it."

"Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations."

"I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places."

"Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art."