When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.
No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.
We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.
A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.
Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.
Mr. Shaw came for a short time recently to be regarded less as an author than as an incident in the European War. In the opinion of many people it seemed as if the Allies were fighting against a combination composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Mr. Shaw.
The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes.
The U. S. couldn't play a military role in different areas like Iraq and Afghanistan without huge quantities of oil. So a shortage or disruption in oil would not only damage the U. S. economy; it would undercut American military supremacy.
I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absencepresence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future.
The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.
The secret of charm is bullshit.