"Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment."

"A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats."

"While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again."

"I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?"

"Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form."

"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."

"What greater grief than the loss of one's native land."

"Type faces--like people's faces--have distinctive features indicating aspects of character"

"Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said."

"All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle."