"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."

"Religion is pickled God."

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

"When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race."

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."

"Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do."

"The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success."

"The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right."

"Justice is truth in action."

"The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry."

"I was born modest. Not all over, but in spots."