"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it."

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning."

"Religion is pickled God."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them."

"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can."

"Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure."

"I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful."

"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."

"The perfect man of action, is the suicide."

"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."