"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."

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

"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them."

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

"The past is but the past of a beginning."

"Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime."

"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace."

"In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash."

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

"Just because a poet said something didn't mean it was true, only that it sounded good."

"I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage."