"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."

"One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns he must die and accepts his sentence undismayed."

"To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."

"The Office does not sanctify the holder of it."

"If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!"

"Specialization is for insects."

"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been!'"

"When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy."

"He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion."

"Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters."

"We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong."