"Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide."

"We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing."

"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

"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."

"The end of all education should surely be service to others."

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."

"Behind almost every woman you ever heard of stands a man who let her down."

"To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established."

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power."

"REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter."

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."